African Americans and College ChoiceThe Influence of Family and School

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Kassie Freeman - AuthorM. Christopher Brown II - Foreword by

Price: $95.00Hardcover - 158 pages

Release Date: December 2004

ISBN10: 0-7914-6191-2ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6191-4

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Release Date: December 2004

ISBN10: 0-7914-6192-0ISBN13: 978-0-7914-6192-1

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Summary

Assesses the influence of family and school on African American students' college decision-making processes.

Acknowledging the disparity between the number of African American high school students who aspire toward higher education and the number who actually attend, this book uncovers factors that influence African American students' decisions regarding college. Kassie Freeman brings new insights to the current body of research on African Americans and higher education by examining the impact that family, school, community, and home have in the decision-making process. She explores specific factors that contribute to a student's predisposition toward higher education, including gender, economics, and high school curriculum, and seeks to bridge the gap in understanding why aspiration does not immediately translate into participation. Educators and policy makers interested in increasing African American students' participation in higher education will benefit from the exploration of this paradox.

"I do not believe that Freeman nor her readers are naïve enough to believe that the transformation and the promotion of schools as harbingers of African American college choice will metamorphically occur with the closing of the book. However, what Freeman has done is given us the research data that is required, along with the conceptual maps for envisioning, developing, and implementing fundamental educational change."  from the Foreword by M. Christopher Brown II

"Given the shrinking number of African Americans attending college, the analysis of their decisions, coupled with family and schooling influences, is highly significant."  Carol Camp Yeakey, coeditor of Surmounting All Odds: Education, Opportunity, and Society in the New Millennium

Kassie Freeman is Dean and Professor of Education at Dillard University. She is the editor of African American Culture and Heritage in Higher Education Research and Practice.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword by M. Christopher Brown II

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Puzzle of College Aspirations versus Attendance

Part One: Familial and Individual Influences

1. The Influence of Family 2. Turning Point: When Decisions Are Made
3. Gender Issues: The College Choice Process of African American Females and Males
4. Economic Expectation and College Choice

Part Two: School Influences

5. Curriculum Issues and Choice
6. Channeling Long and Wrong
7. Decision Making by High School Type: High Schools Successful in Channeling
8. Selection of Higher Education Institution Type: HBCU or PWI?

Part Three: Putting the Puzzle Together

9. Students Offer Solutions
10. The Case for Expanding the College Choice Model